Susan Estrich
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| Susan Estrich | |
| Born | December 16, 1952 Marblehead, Massachusetts |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard Law School Wellesley College |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Susan Estrich (born December 16, 1952) is an American lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate, and political commentator for Fox News.
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[edit] Biography
Estrich was born in Lynn, Massachusetts,[citation needed] and grew up in Marblehead on the Massachusetts North Shore, where she attended the Eveleth School. [1].[citation needed]
Estrich graduated from Wellesley College in 1974, and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1977.[citation needed] In 1976, Estrich was elected the first female president/editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review.[2]
Estrich served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1988, she was the campaign manager for Michael Dukakis' 1988 presidential run.
Estrich appears frequently on Fox News as a legal and political analyst, and has also substituted for Alan Colmes on the debate show Hannity & Colmes. She writes regular articles for NewsMax, for which she is a pundit.[3] She is also on the Board of Editorial Contributors for USA Today.[citation needed] She is currently a law professor at the University of Southern California Law School and a political science professor at its affiliated undergraduate school. Before joining the USC faculty in 1989, she was Professor of Law at Harvard University, where she was the youngest woman tenured faculty.[citation needed] On January 10, 2008, Estrich joined the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges law firm, a litigation powerhouse based in Los Angeles.[4]
In several of her books, including Sex & Power and The Case for Hillary Clinton, Estrich discusses her experience as a survivor of rape. Her book Real Rape talks about the history of rape law in the United States. In 2004, Estrich challenged Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Michael Kinsley for under-representing women on the editorial page.[5][6]
Estrich was married to screenwriter, professor and former speechwriter Marty Kaplan.[citation needed] She is Jewish, having been Bat Mitzvahed at Temple Israel in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and has written about her religion in her column.[7]
Estrich was very outspoken during the 2008 presidential race, particularly on the subject of women in politics in light of the candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. Estrich supported Clinton in the Democratic primaries[8], but was strongly critical of Palin.[9]
[edit] Bibliography
- Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Target of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1985. ISBN 0674190653.
- Real Rape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1988. ISBN 0674749448.
- Making the Case for Yourself: A Diet Book for Smart Women. New York: Riverhead Hardcover. 1997. ISBN 1573220833.
- Getting Away with Murder: How Politics is Destroying the Criminal Justice System. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. ISBN 0674354117.
- Sex and Power. New York: Riverhead Books. 2001. ISBN 1573228931.
- How to Get Into Law School. New York: Riverhead Trade. 2004. ISBN 1594480354.
- The Case for Hillary Clinton. New York: Regan Books. 2005. ISBN 0060839880.
- Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate. New York: Regan Books. 2006. ISBN 0061246492.
[edit] References
- ^ "Eveleth School" http://www.marblehead.com/schools/eveleth/
- ^ New York Times, "First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review." http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DC1631F935A35751C0A966958260
- ^ http://www.newsmaxstore.com/nm/newsmax_pundits.cfm
- ^ http://www.quinnemanuel.com/news/announcement-feb-08-susan-estrich.aspx
- ^ Kurtz, Howard (2005-03-07). "For One Ed, Strong Op: Susan Estrich Addresses the Male". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12722-2005Mar6.html.
- ^ Susan Estrich on Gender, Missing Voices, and That Nasty Email War, Columbia Journalism Review interview, undated.
- ^ A Lot Like Christmas
- ^ Creators Syndicate, The Heat in the Kitchen
- ^ Creators Syndicate, Sarah Palin mattered
[edit] External links
- Susan Estrich at University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
